Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] GNUMail doesn't connect to IMAP Server

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Thursday, August 9, 2012 00:36 CEST, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> 
wrote: 
 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2012-08-07 19:18:05 +0200 "Sebastian Reitenbach" 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> > 
> > How about this then: This now works for me. I figured, when I 
> > explicityl set 
> > theBOOL to NO, then it worked immediately,
> > so I looked closer and figured, I have to move the whole if (theBOOL) 
> > down, 
> > because _servers is at that time still
> > empty, and it doesn't know which servers to query and therefore 
> > refuses to 
> > get back with a name.
> > With it moved down, after the if (!o) chunk, it perfectly works for 
> > me.
> > 
> > Does it still work for you on NetBSD and Linux?
> > 
> > The patch to Framework/Pantomime/io.c is to get rid of a compiler 
> > warning, 
> > implicit declaration of abort()
> 
> I tried on FreeBSD and a quick test shows that it becomes very 
> unstable when browsing my IMAP folders with hangs and and CPU getting 
> stuck to 100%.
> Some stuff must be fishy...

Is that with or without my patch, does my patch make a difference? 
Is there any objection against my patch?

I haven't observed that yet, since I need SMTP authentication to write mail,
but since that is not yet working, GNUMail is of not soo much use for me yet.

> 
> I am using GNUMail on MacOS and it is reasonably usable, I can 
> navigate through folders, read and delete mail and send mail with 
> non.-authenticated SMTP (which i can only from home... elsewehere I 
> need authentication which doesn't work... but that is a nother 
> well-known issue)

This is on my TODO list next, I really need SMPT auth to send mail ;)

Sebastian

> 
> Riccardo
>